Messages

As I mentioned earlier, you are a clown

O hare
O Hagen x2
Quinn
Annett
McCabe
Dornan


Ward Morgan mcevoy and McCourt certainly a long way to go yet
Mcevoy and Laverty would not start for Down. Laverty coukd not start in his prime for Christ sake. He did then get his place on poor poor Down teams

You're a clown

Well it has to be a Brannigan as nobody else is good enough for the team that are already not on it. The Johnstone brothers and Paul Devlin already play.

What an incredible journey this fantastic group of men have brought us on. Mickey Moran and his team are special and have brought us to dream land. Today is a special day for our great club and no matter the result, these fellas are legends in the parish.

Its an honour and special privilege to be able to run out onto Croke Park with the boys you grew up and went to school with. And although the supporters won't be on the pitch with them, we will be behind the team as they cover every blade of the hallowed turf in search of glory.

Thanks to everyone for the support over the last couple of weeks. Great messages of support coming in from all over Down, Ulster, Ireland and abroad. The parish is buzzing with excitement.

For anyone travelling down, have a safe journey and add to the chants of UTM to help us bring this cup back up the road 😊💪

#CillChuaAbu #UTM #UTM

All the best to our senior men today.

#UTM

Wasn't a dry eye in the house after watching the BBC programme.

Puts it all into perspective what the GAA is all about.

Never been as proud of a bunch of lads in my whole life. Absolutely amazing effort from every one of them right down to the last sub.

We will enjoy the celebrations over the next few days as I think we have earned it lol.

Thanks to everyone for all the support, the amount of well wishers on here and when I've been out and about has been great to see.

#UTM

Kilcoo have won Down in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
Surely they can win Ulster after all that trying

Praying to God that we can get our hands on the Ulster that has eluded us thus far. Glenties will be extremely tough opposition and we are taking nothing for granted. Fingers, toes and anything else that can be crossed will be lol.

While it is a good sound bite 'nothing else to do in Kilcoo...etc' in my opinion they are doing themselves a disservice. Surely 15 years ago there was also nothing else to do in Kilcoo? But they weren't winning anything. It's the serious hard yards the club have put in to get them to where they are today. Regardless of what else goes on. Success breads success and they have built something to keep working on. Maybe now yes it is good that there is nothing else to do as such, so there are no distractions, but it all had to change at some point.

Always reminds me of a Joe Brolly quote about Jim McGuinness bringing in a lot of the U21 Donegal team that won Ulster and were runners up in AI in 2010. 'You can't breed winners with losers'. Kilcoo had a great set of underage teams in the late 00's and they managed to mix it perfectly with the more experianced players like Laverty, Greenan, McEvoys, etc

Rewind another 15+ years on that.

The start of it all was the early to mid 90s, going from Div3 to Div1 in 2 years in the mid to late 90s was off the back of the initial push - and beating Burren first time out in Div 1 (in Burren) was a massive confidence boost that had everyone not just believing, but knowing they were of a standard good enough to win in senior football.

But the bulk of that generation had a long hard slog and didn't quite make it in the SFC. Mayobridge frequently being the dastardly culprits. Many (even of the 1998 minor team) were gone by 2009 before eventually the Frank O'Hare was won. The subsequent SFC winning teams 2012- has been back boned by the U-14 AI Feile winning squad of 2006.

But without the work done in the early and mid-90s, nothing of what came after would have been possible. Even in the 80s getting the pitch. That was the foundations everything else was built on. There is a helluva lot owed to a lot of men (some now sadly gone) that put in serious hours on and off the pitch to get the club to where it is today.

Goosebumps reading that. Great post.

Delighted with the result for the club tonight. We will absolutely not be taking anything for granted coming up against Glenties. We seen what kind of game plan they follow and bossed Clontibret so we are expecting a fierce tough game against them.

That was a serious effort from our men and I'm bursting with pride. They've done the village proud.

#UTM

All the best to our men and also to Glenn in both games today. Big efforts required and hope they do the county proud and there are 2 down teams progressing to Ulster final day.

#UTM

Excited and nervous for tomorrows game. Hopefully our men are able to get the performance required but we are taking nothing for granted and Derrygonnelly will be very tough opposition.

#UTM

Good win for us yesterday. Delighted to get the win. Up against a Derrgonnelly team that are no pushovers either and can expect a fierce encounter with them.

Congratulations to Glenn also, great to see them marching on. Be great to see them do well.

All the best to our men tomorrow. Looking forward to a good competitive game.

#UTM

Fantastic result for Newry Shamrocks. Hope they can push on and win the final.

Delighted with the result and to be bringing Frank back to Kilcoo this evening. Commiserations to Warrenpoint in what was a well fought game.

Not bad for a redneck club 

#UTM